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The Red Tip trees in our backyard are blooming now. At first glance there's nothing remarkable about them and for the longest time I never paid them any attention.
But one day while out gardening I took a closer look and was so surprised by how pretty those big puffy blooms are, full of tiny lacey flowerets.
This is not what I meant to post today. I had a plan actually, but my day was full of unexpected delays and I ran out of time and the goodwill of my PC.
Instead of the other thing I decided to use a homemade Christmas card as my project.
The card is in total 15 x 10 cm and the shown area about 4 cm in height.
It was a long, icy trek from Hwy. 6 up to the right of way to capture this perspective of Spanish Fork Canyon near Tucker, Utah on New Year’s Eve, 1994. I was none too happy that SP’s KCROQ arrived uninvited to “photobomb” my Utah Railway coal train shot. Perspectives change, and now this view offers a snapshot of a relatively short-lived era along the former D&RGW. All is forgiven 😆
I had to look twice before I recognised the completely harmless nature of this epiphany. Pentacon 3.5/30 wide-open, close-up.
This merlin was being harassed by a couple of crows.
The light was poor and he was far away.
But I went and shot him anyway.
He turned out very sharp.
I am trying out ON1 photo editor. Very pleased.
Holly Ridge Conservation Area
Bloomfield Missouri
Photo Taken on December 14. 2020
An unexpected bridge on a hike. I like bridges, they ease the crossing of creeks and streams. Provide a place to stop and gather my thoughts. I look up and down this passive stream. Today its quiet and reflective. Tomorrow after a rain it could be noisy and swift.
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Male Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata) paying an unexpected visit to Low Barns Nature Reserve.
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Canon EOS 6D - f/5 - 1/100sec - 100 mm - ISO 1000
- During my photo shoot with the Inca berry suddenly a ladybird/ladybug appeared on it.
I'm still wondering if this small beetle travelled with the berries from Colombia to The Netherlands or did it (gender neutral, I didn't investigate ;-) ) wake up while hibernating in my home ?
UP LID48 heads west at Port Kelley Washington with a SD60 leading a former Cotton Belt GP60. I was not expecting to see any trains on the line so naturally of course I had to go after this one.
unerwartete Wendung ...
es ist immer gut, wenn es Risse in den Erwartungen gibt ...
dedicated to Chris und Judy, die ich beide sehr bewundere ...
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Eigentlich hätte ihr Outfit perfekterweise schwarz-gelb sein müssen (Farbfoto folgt), da wir uns hier in einer Ausstellung, die dem Ruhrgebiet gewidmet ist, bewegen, und gibt es in diesem Oeuvre doch auch große Fotos von den Dortmund-Fans im Fußballstadion, neben all den anderen Klischees des Ruhrgebietes ...
Die (ebenerdige) Ausstellung ist fantastisch und lohnt sich.
Mutter und Tochter betraten die Ausstellung und ich war gleich elektrisiert, von diesen Knien. Zwei schöne große blonde Menschen schauten sich interessiert die Exponate an, und Mutter musste vor dem einen oder anderen Brenner-Bild ein Handyfoto von der Tochter schießen.
Chris, es dauerte mehrere Etagen hinauf und hinunter, bis diese nette junge Frau für mich die Idealposition einnahm, eben vor der Rolltreppe der Zeche Zollverein, die orange, die ihr ja alle kennt.
Ich hätte mir noch etwas mehr Abstand von ihr zu dem Bild gewünscht, aber wenn man nicht all zu kritisch ist, entsteht schon die Vorstellung, dass die nette, junge Dame auf der Rolltreppe steht.
Als sie sich jedoch vom Foto abwandte, habe ich sie dann mit der unteren Fotokante fotografiert, weil ihr fabelhaftes
Knie - De·kolle·té
so ziemlich genau mit der Rahmenkante abschloss.
Schade, das man hier beides gleichzeitig sieht und ein Umblättern nicht möglich ist ...
;-) ...
2x ƒ/7.1 90.0 mm 1/60 2000
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Created in Wombo Dream.
Filters: PSE21 and Topaz Studio.
Much hand painting. (I had to create one of his ears.)
Snowflakes: pngwing.com.
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This year, I spend part of my holidays in Western Finland, since I’ve never had a chance to visit Pori nor Rauma. I was positively surprised by the fine beaches of Yyteri, located near Pori. Not only the looks and feeling of the sand, but also by its size.
When looking for that perfect composition, you sometimes do the unexpected. My husband and I were shooting an evening sky not knowing what to expect with the colors. We both were wearing long pants because of the bugs that were out to get a good meal. However, hubby had these marvellous pants where the legs zip off to make shorts so he could wade into the shallow water. When the sky suddenly showed promise of great reflections and color in the water as well as the sky above, he went for the better composition by going into the water. Then the sky truly exploded with color and I decided to just go for it and waded in with my long pants! There was a lady on shore who gasped when I went in fully clothed with camera and tripod to stand beside my husband. But I did get a nice shot ( which I will post later) and the pants dried quickly the next day.
Quebec Gatineau surprised us today with extra QGRY 3537 West, leaving l'Ancienne Lorette yard at 1400 with their employee special Christmas train, bound for Trois-Rivières.
QGRY made absolutely no publicity about this move, the heads up came from a facebook post at noon (thanks Sam!). The Christmas consist was supposed to leave on westbound 920 but due to a weight pulling limit on the van (2500 tons max) the consist went as an extra move ahead of 920 this afternoon.
Here it is passing the former Canadian Pacific station at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade.
Algonquin, Canada
It was an overcast day. Late afternoon hike in woods led us around this glacial erratic. I would have just passed by but sun came out for a moment and the dappled light did its magic. Had to stop and pull out the camera.
Whilst up at Bowfiddle Rock in Portknockie the sky was amazing, I took this shot as I liked the unexpected leading line / shadows on the sea. Pulling my eye into the post sunset lightshow above :-) This was a long exposure using my kit lens and a single cokin ND8 filter.
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being . . . Albert Schweitzer
macro monday = unexpected
This picture was such a pleasant surprise. We were visiting someone in Riverhead Long Island and stumbled upon this little Bison farm
Driving through the grounds of Callaway Gardens, we were so surprised to see this small knoll of trees ablaze with Fall colors so late in the season we just had to pull over.
Bighorn Mountain Sheep
Palm Canyon
Agua Caliente Indian Reservation
Palm Springs, California
Best viewed large to see the bighorn mountain sheep near the top of the image.
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